The imperial island; England's chronicle in stone; (1886)
Hunnewell, James Frothingham, 1832-1910 · Boston, Ticknor · leaf 326
other partsof the building it may be briefly said that several, includingthe cloisters, are of the fourteenth century, and that between1502 and 1520 the unrivalled chapel at the east end was builtby Henry VII. In the reign of his successor the Abbey was inmore danger than at any other time, and… … WESTMINSTER ABBEY. 231 Queen Mary, as well as at several later dates, and have beenrecently continued. Notwithstanding all these efforts, verylarge repairs are now imperatively needed on the clerestory ofthe nave and on the north end, for the climate has proved abitter foe, to which the material…
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